Germans continue to sow minefields, usually about 30 miles out from and opposite the east coast and commercial harbours of England. ...
Article : 59 wordsAn International Commission of Control will shortly assume the Government of Albania Prince. William of Wied, the nominal King of Albania, pardoned ...
Article : 41 wordsUp to the present 200,000 men have been recruited in Great Britain for general service. Four bundled of the men in the ...
Article : 56 wordsCount Berastorff, German Ambassador to the United States, is trying to involve the United states in the neutrality question. He states that he has positive ...
Article : 100 wordsThe wounded who have arrived from Prussia describe how they stood for hours with shrapnel raining down, being in able to tee a single German for dust ...
Article : 177 wordsChaina, following the precedent in the Russia-Japanese war, has declared that at such points within Lingkau and Lai-chau and the neighbourhood of Kain-chau Bay as ...
Article : 93 wordsThe Prime Minister to-night received the following cable from the High Commissioner:—"Official: The cruiser Pathfinder struck a mine at 1.30 on Saturday ...
Article : 91 wordsThe wheat market is firm. The Chicago wheat market is strong September wheat is quoted at 116 to 121 cents per bushel; December, 119 to 124¾ cents. ...
Article : 232 wordsSeven hundred men of the North Belfast Regiment of Ulster Volunteers were enlisted to-day in Lord Kitchener's second army. The contingent paraded ...
Article : 59 wordsCount Beinstorff, the German Ambassador announces the capture of 90,000 Russians, all the northern forts of Trance, and the complete defeat of the Russians ...
Article : 103 wordsThe following cables have been received from the High Commissioner under date September 4, 5.55 p.m.:— "Official: Seven German destroyers and ...
Article : 267 wordsA letter from a wounded Gordon Highlander describes the retreat from Mons as fighting by day and retiring by night until they came to Cambrai on Tuesday ...
Article : 74 wordsEight of the Hampshire county cricket professional players have enlisted with the Territorials, and eight of the Hampshire amateurs are at the front or have ...
Article : 56 wordsThirty-five thousand Austrian and Russian wounded were abandoned between Tarnogrod and Tarnpol, besides those in Lemberg. Owing to the ...
Article : 45 wordsSir William R. Nicoll, the editor, in the "British Weekly," appeals to Nonconformists to encourage recruiting. If the voluntary system fails, there must be ...
Article : 33 wordsA further 7000 bales of slipes and medium and coarse crossbreds were sold privately at a penny above July rates. ...
Article : 24 wordsThe British cruiser Suffolk stopped a Dutch steamer a few miles off New York Harbour because the cruiser's signals were disregarded. ...
Article : 33 wordsGeneral Samsonoff who lost his life when the Russian forces suffeted a reverse in the swamps near Allenstein, in Lastern Prussia refused to beed warnings ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Admiralty announces that two German cruisers and four destroyers sank 15 British fishing boats in the North Sea, and made prisoners of the crews. ...
Article : 37 wordsMr. Hardcion a wealthy Jew, is raising and equipping at his own expense a mounted force of local Britishers to go to the front. ...
Article : 30 wordsBritish Columbia has decided upon making a gift to the Motherland of 1,200,0001b. of canned salmon, which is intended for the troops in France. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe Federal Grand Jury is investigating the undue increase of food prices, as a result of the war seare, and has returned 32 indictments against unnamed parties ...
Article : 44 wordsThe, War Office is appealing for 250 motor drivers for motor ambulances to go to the front. ...
Article : 25 wordsA formidable cat o' nine tails was found in overy officer's cabin on the Gunman cruiser Magdeburg, which went ashore in the Gulf of Finland and was destroyed. ...
Article : 46 wordsColonel Tomisofski's two daughters and Sparta Gerard's daughter, it Vilna, disguised as soldiers, stole off from the theatre to go to the war. Eventually their ...
Article : 44 wordsThe Government Press Bureau requests wealthy residents to discontinue isolated encouragement in the form of money bounties to recruits, as beiug likely to ...
Article : 40 wordsThe Durban Chamber of Commerce has passed a resolution regretting that hitherto South Africa has not given much support to the Imperial Navy, and ...
Article : 42 wordsThe New York "World," commenting editorially on Germany's callous disavowal of her treaty obligations, says that for a hundred years a "scrap of paper" has ...
Article : 121 wordsThe daily newspaper "Metropole" states that Russia has notified Germany of her intention to levy on every German town occupied a contribution double that ...
Article : 43 wordsPassengers aboard the steamer Niagara, which arrived from Vancouver on Saturday, had an anxious time in crossing the Pacific. Every night while at sea the ...
Article : 166 wordsThe Nish correspondent of the "Journal" states that Austrians bound together and shot 80 Servian prisoners at Shabatz. They bayoneted the Bodies, saying, "We ...
Article : 162 wordsThe War Office has issued a further list of casualties, consisting of 16 officers killed, 53 wounded, and 94 missing. LONDON, Saturday. ...
Article : 44 wordsThe South Africans have inagurated a movement to offer the Government a completely horsed and equipped contingent of 500, with maxim, aviation, and ...
Article : 34 wordsA British submarine picked up a German aviation pilot and the mechanic from a flotting aeroplane in the North Sea, 50 miles from Harwich. ...
Article : 51 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle" states that the Devonshire Regiment were magnificent in action. They fought with the real Devon spirit and tenacity. ...
Article : 30 wordsAt an enthusiastic meeting of Italians in London resolutions were carried expressing sympathy with England. The speakers affirmed that it was the duty ...
Article : 43 wordsIn order to raise the necessary money to finance the United States and to make up for the loss of revenue through the falling off of trade, it has practically ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Prince of Wales's Relief Fund now amounts to £2,189,000, including £100,000 contributed by Glasgow. ...
Article : 21 wordsRunning four days late the steamer Otway arrived to-day. She had got as far as Gibraltar when war was declared and owing to the presence of the German ...
Article : 168 wordsThe American Women's Fund for the British Red Cross Hospital has reached over £21,000. ...
Article : 20 wordsAs a Taube aeroplane was approaching Vincennes to-day a French aviator advanced and circled above the Taube, and discharged grapeahot into, the wing of ...
Article : 38 wordsThere is a great exodus from Havre to England, and all the boats are crowded, the passengers including many refugees. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe Admiralty has taken over the Crystal Palace for naval uses. ...
Article : 17 wordsThe Austrian casualties in Galicia numbered 20,000. All the buildings in Lemberg are packed with Austrian wounded, who were abandoned in the heading ...
Article : 197 wordsAll licensed houses in London will be closed at 11 p.m. after Monday next. ...
Article : 20 wordsGerman aeroplanes bombarded Ghent, and also Eecloo, 12 miles N.W. of Ghent, causing some damage to property, but no loss of life. ...
Article : 42 wordsThe Acting Governor or the Gold Coast (West Africa), in a proclamation on August 5 informed the chiefs and peoples of the existence of ...
Article : 284 wordsThe United States Government has decided to take over the single wireless station communicating with Europe, and allow messages in code and eipher to go ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Government Press Bureau states that Field-Marshal Lord Roberts has made an appeal to sportsmen for the loan of a race field for the purpose of holding ...
Article : 45 wordsDuring a visit by Queen Alexandra to wounded soldiers returned from the front they related to her Majesty how a German aeroplane hovering over British ...
Article : 153 wordsThe Rugby Union, in deference to Lord Kitchener's appeal, has cancelled its international fixtures and the county championship games. ...
Article : 27 wordsThe trade routes of the Atlantic are perfectly free of the enemy. A statement to this effect has been officially made to the State Department by Sir Cecil ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Government of Ceylon has in formed the Premier (Hon. D. F. Denham) that the homeward bound German steamer Furth is foreibly detained at ...
Article : 57 wordsThe mails from Australia by the steamer Mongolia have been delivered. ...
Article : 16 wordsTile police are investigating daily several hundred suspicious cases of Germans in London, and sending them to the concentration camp. ...
Article : 28 wordsThe Hon George Foster (Minister for Trade and Comerce) has issued an appeal to Canadian manufucturers to capture all the available German oversea trade, and ...
Article : 82 wordsSanguinary fighting continues along the front from Lublin to Kholm, where the Tenth Austrian Army Corps attempted to break the Russiin lines, and was ...
Article : 149 wordsOwing to a printer's error, the price of condensed milk, fixed by the Control of Trade Board, was published on Saturday as 7d. per tin. The figures should have ...
Article : 45 wordsThe navy has undertaken the aerial defence of England, particularly London. Waterplanes are continually patrolling the cast coast and scarchlights are employed ...
Article : 65 wordsThe Prize Court has been opened. Mr. Justice Evans ordered eight German vessels to be confiscated and sold. ...
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Article : 325 wordsThe Secretary of state for Foreign Affairs, Sir Edward Grey, writing to a recruiting meeting at Berwick, sold that England was engaged in ai conflict against ...
Article : 99 wordsThe Russian, French, and English Ambassadors have renewed the assurance that Turkey's independence and integrity will be maintained against all comers if Turkey ...
Article : 33 wordsThe Consuls-General of the (South American countries met with the object of forming a plan to establish credits, with the United States to enable them to ...
Article : 130 wordsA correspondent of the "Observer" at Ostend, who passed the German lines, visitad Mons, and states that the Germans, fearing an attack by the British ...
Article : 92 wordsThe German crews are still aboard the cruisers Goeben and Bresiau. ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Mon 7 Sep 1914, Page 8
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